What is the reason for not being able to sleep?

Insomnia is a very common problem in daily life. There are many reasons for insomnia, including physical reasons, mental reasons, and some diseases. When you can't sleep, if it is serious, you must go to the hospital for examination in time. In addition, you must maintain good living habits in daily life to gradually improve the insomnia.

What is the reason for not being able to sleep?

1. Physical reasons leading to insomnia

Physical illness and medications can interfere with sleep. Such as indigestion, headache, back pain, arthritis, heart disease, diabetes, asthma, sinusitis, ulcer disease, or taking certain medications that affect the central nervous system.

2. Insomnia caused by mental reasons

Possible causes include being under a lot of stress, excessive worry, tension or anxiety, sadness or depression, anger, and prone to sleeping problems.

3. Lifestyle causes insomnia

Sleep problems due to lifestyle factors are also common. Such as drinking coffee or tea, drinking alcohol at night, eating before going to bed or eating dinner late so that the stomach is full of undigested food, smoking a lot, strenuous physical activity before going to bed, excessive mental activity before going to bed, working the night shift, taking naps during the day, irregular bedtimes, and irregular waking up times.

4. Environmental factors leading to insomnia

Noisy sleeping environment, sleeping environment that is too bright, polluted, or overcrowded

What are the symptoms of insomnia?

1. Type of difficulty falling asleep: tossing and turning, falling asleep 1-3 hours later than usual. The patient said that he was very sleepy and wanted to sleep, but he just couldn’t fall asleep when lying in bed. He tossed and turned and thought about all sorts of things, couldn’t calm down, and his sleep time was significantly reduced. Some patients feel sleepy, drowsy and listless during the day but are excited and unable to sleep at night. They take naps while studying, attending meetings or in classes, or fall asleep while leaning on the sofa while watching TV. But they become energetic again as soon as they lie down on the bed and cannot fall asleep no matter what.

2. Type of sleep disorder: Lack of real sense of sleep. Many patients can fall asleep soundly, but after waking up they firmly believe that they did not fall asleep, while the people in the same room or their spouse say that they have been snoring.

3. The type that is prone to dreaming: The patient feels that he or she has not slept soundly, and is neither asleep nor awake all night long. As soon as he or she closes his or her eyes, he or she dreams, and wakes up at the slightest movement. Some wake up early, no matter when they fall asleep, and wake up at three o'clock in the morning. It is even more difficult to fall asleep again after waking up, so they have to stare until dawn. Insomnia patients all know that it is most painful when they cannot fall asleep. Some patients often have nightmares. They wake up from terrifying and thrilling dreams, break out in cold sweats, feel nervous and have palpitations, and look pale. They dare not fall asleep again. This is also a symptom of insomnia.